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WE ARE GEN-X
We are the feral generation.
Raised on hose water and neglect!
Our parents still don't know where we are.
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Welcome to our DDial and STS Guestbook. If you are ex DDial or STS post a message below and let the community know you are still around. Feel free to make any comments, where you're from and what you've been doing over the years, or simply a "Hey all, im still alive and kicking!" =)
We look forward to hearing from you!
Dec 6, 2025
Morgund #1154
MagViz DDIAL+
howdy folks!
Oct 28, 2025
Sharky
Interchat/Jungle/Flash
I was sitting here pondering the years/decades.... Ddial popped in there, like The Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man...
39 years later.
I hope you are all well. I hope your lives have turned out even better than when we were kids... And I hope, that as we enter our senior years, you have as many adventures to lean back on in ur rocking chair as I do.
On a fluke I ran into Ming- of all places, School- about 25 years ago. Ming, I hope you're well old man!!
Toxic Waste too, about 30 years ago in a dive bar. LoL Hope you're well old friend!
As for the rest of you scoundrels and pirates... I miss yas and all
the late night shenanigans we had!!
Be well. ;) <3
39 years later.
I hope you are all well. I hope your lives have turned out even better than when we were kids... And I hope, that as we enter our senior years, you have as many adventures to lean back on in ur rocking chair as I do.
On a fluke I ran into Ming- of all places, School- about 25 years ago. Ming, I hope you're well old man!!
Toxic Waste too, about 30 years ago in a dive bar. LoL Hope you're well old friend!
As for the rest of you scoundrels and pirates... I miss yas and all
the late night shenanigans we had!!
Be well. ;) <3
Oct 7, 2025
lily_philia #1119
Magviz
hi guys been a long time, I forgot how to enter to my old acc T0T
Sep 13, 2025
EndeR
God's country, point zero, psyberchat
At the vintage computer festival and the had a ddial set up. Was so wild. Weird WEIRD nostalgia. Thank you all, Rich, Scotty, Chris, Netmare, shroom, Adam, and everyone I'm forgetting for welcoming me at a time in my life when I couldn't find a place were I belonged.
Sep 12, 2025
Sleigher #181
Detroit #1, Cat House #69
Hosted many a ddial related party in Northville back in the day. Great to see a lot of familiar handles!
Aug 12, 2025
Mr. Yuck #1139
https://bashbbs.kernelfortress.org
I am finally signing the guestbook. Sorry it took me so long! <3 Magviz.ca
Jul 18, 2025
mWS
5150 Boston
Hello, miss everyone hope all is well. Live long and perspire!
Jul 11, 2025
ariel #135
DDIAL #1-Detroit, #69-Cat House, #34-RMAC (D/FW)
I was sitting across from a nerdy AI tech bro the other day and said something about meeting my husband online in 1986 before there was an internet (at least as it became known after Al Gore invented it!) -- it startled him and made me nostalgic. DDial shaped my life into something far better than if I'd never found it. I'm still married to quiescent... from RMAC 38 years later and we have two adult daughters. Other RMAC marriages are still going strong, friendships, kids, grandkids. I started in Detroit visiting and playing on Bill Basham's mothership station, helped Tom Cat set up the Cat House, and eventually moved to Texas where I had a pocket of ready friends to ease the cross country move. We had several conventions in Texas and have even had a few reunions in the decades since. RMAC shut down after Christmas 1989 and I avoided anything online for a while -- IRC was just not the same! It wasn't until Facebook came along that we reconnected with people we had lost touch with but there's still more that I wonder about!
Jul 11, 2025
carinah #233
Point Zer0 and God's Country
Hello, hello, all my old DDial friends! It's me, carinah / saranrapture / princestuous from Chicagoland DDials and BBSes. Thank you for all you did to support and care for me as a young human in a confusing world. I love you!
Jun 17, 2025
mhmrules #1137
magiz/Land of the Lost
Nice little chat setup you guys have!
Jun 15, 2025
Dan #312
DD#4/Utopia - Chicago
I was the sysop of #4. Went to the Dallas meet-up in the summer of 1987. Met some cool people from the NYC area down there. Ghost from FlashTalk joined us on the road trip. Blast from the past.. good times. It's nice to see so many familiar names still around.
Jun 10, 2025
Squirrel #074
STS-01
What a strange trip it's been.
Apr 28, 2025
m0sherd00d #357
ThreeRingCircuit
I was m0sherd00d, Anubis, and MaryJo (Long Story) on ThreeRingCircuit (Shelton, CT-Based DDial) back in the day.
This site brings back very fond memories of that time in my life. Thank you!
This site brings back very fond memories of that time in my life. Thank you!
Apr 22, 2025
Nomad #1128
DDial 1 Bill Basham/ DDial 69 tom cat
Michigan
Mar 31, 2025
hollowone #991
magiz
Hello world!
Mar 16, 2025
mro #137
I used some but can't remember exactly
I am god's gift to bbsing.
"He who is aware of his folly, is wise"
"He who is aware of his folly, is wise"
Mar 2, 2025
DaveDJ #129
IsleChat / TGB / A few of the NJ sites
Long Island DDialer from the 80s/90s - hung around IsleChat primarily.. Actually see a lot of old names/friends in the gusestbook - hope all are doing well!
Feb 28, 2025
Merischino
Flash Talk, Attic Static, Frankly Speaking
Wherever you go, there you are.
Feb 24, 2025
lily_philia #1119
new to DDIal/ RetroDial
hi ^ ^ this is such an interesting place, looking forward to socialize and perhaps hang out when I'm bored or maybe looking for fun. This is a first so I might be just observing on how to this BBS thingy.
Feb 13, 2025
Kawasu #1118
New to DDIal/RetroDial
Male in 40's looking to find a place to hang out and socialize
Feb 3, 2025
Lady Sapphire
RMAC
RE!!
I don't expect to be remembered but I was on RMAC in the late 80s and was talking to a friend about today 2/3/2025 and stumbled across this site.
Vickie
I don't expect to be remembered but I was on RMAC in the late 80s and was talking to a friend about today 2/3/2025 and stumbled across this site.
Vickie
Jan 31, 2025
Grendel #1019
Fantasia
I yet suck in breath. Was also Wintermute. I still chat under MultipleSarcasms in some spaces.
Escaped Florida in 2016 and live in Oregon =)
Escaped Florida in 2016 and live in Oregon =)
Jan 29, 2025
DreamPilot #1117
FANTASIA
Had several versions of the name. DreamPilot, Dream, DP, FloridaGold, CrystalCross. Also author of MPCBBS Pro.
Jan 27, 2025
calcmandan
MRC
Hello from Air & Wave BBS
Jan 1, 2025
LloydBlack #696
The Jungle (DDial #62 and STS #12)
We're all imperfect, but we're all perfectly ourselves. Who gives a shit what other people think.
Dec 28, 2024
ƑɄƧ𝝞𝝝𝝢+ #078
c64
greeTZ from perCeptuAL-DiSTORTiON+
Dec 27, 2024
Nightowl! #1085
RMAC
"Hey all, im still alive and kicking!" =)
Kind of hurts the knees though.
Kind of hurts the knees though.
Dec 25, 2024
xanadu #1111
Kaleidoscope 312/Chicago
Been a long time since I was on Kaleidoscope in Chicago, clogging up the phone line in my parent's house. Now I live in Japan. Hello!
Dec 20, 2024
]-[ighwayman #886
Magnetic Visions
It's been a minute.
I'm still here though.
I'm still here though.
Dec 9, 2024
zadtheinhaler #1108
too long ago
Been a minute since I played on IRC on taphouse.org. Good to be back!
Nov 27, 2024
stern☕️ #1099
Bottomless Abyss, Telehack
This place is wonderful, I wish I had discovered it sooner.
I'll continue to return here through Magviz, and the Land of the Lost for my tired eyes through the ages.
I'll continue to return here through Magviz, and the Land of the Lost for my tired eyes through the ages.
Nov 27, 2024
Dr. Mad #208
DPAK
|)/`. /\/\/-\|)
Nov 21, 2024
Genesis #322
Paradise #070
Nostalgia...
Oct 28, 2024
PresidentPapaSMurFH #929
>>> STS-21: NOTA
Den made me do it! It's his fault!
Oct 22, 2024
Uber-Geek #337
The Phantom BBS, Magviz
Wish I had found the DDial/STS community when I was younger, instead I was seduced by the dark side of being a SysOp of my own BBS.
Oct 21, 2024
"EE" Egyptian Emperor
All Chicago area: Paradise,Gods Country,Coffee Break and more!
Sorry can't remember all the D-dial locations I was on!
Oct 12, 2024
S𝜏ιɳցᏒαყ #1101
a-net-online.lol
A-Net Online BBS
a-net-online.lol
mystic.a-net-online.lol
a-net-online.lol
mystic.a-net-online.lol
Oct 10, 2024
Texas Tony #1087
#42 Entchat 1986
I am not sure how I found D-Dial. login from denver and found a new world. EP was my girl. Was a phreaker and explorer. Jon <sysop> was an awesome person to grant us special permissions to stay on for hours. We log 10 to 12 hours a day, lol no responsibilities... cheers
Oct 4, 2024
amr #1089
magviz.ca, landofthelost.ca
Learned about ddial through StackFaults developmemt of bridge between MRC and ddial. Ran an bbs back in the day on OS/2. Working on getting one online now toolazy.synchro.net:2323 (telnet) or 22 (ssh). Love the people I've met on ddial and look forward participating. I've added access to ddial through Land of the Lost on my BBS also. Thanks Winter!
Oct 3, 2024
stern☕️ #1099
Magviz
Hello All. This place is cool.
Sep 22, 2024
DustCouncil #027
Beyond Reality, WeenieChat, Flash Talk
Used a variety of handles like StormDweller, Red Eagle, a few others I don't recall. I was, like, 14.
Sep 18, 2024
Storm #016
Attic Static, Flash Talk, Frankly Speaking, The Alamo, Rockford, Beyond Reality, one in CA I can't remember, Barb's which I don't remember the name.
I hate dial and the chicks that are on it.
Sep 1, 2024
boxoskulz #006
none
I wasn't going to sign the Guestbook because I'm not an ex DDial or STS user, the sidebar is humping my leg tho; I'm a DDial user now. So, I've been DDialing since Benjamin Sisko traveled to the end of August. Who knows maybe I will time travel and become an old DDial user. I did a lot of the BBS in the 90s and currently have a love affair with Maximus; Canadian BBS software btw. By now I think I've shared enough to type this fedapoc.tel:2301
Aug 25, 2024
heretic617 #115
5150 and Gumbie Chat in Boston, Massachusetts
My handle back in the 1980's was #015[->Jonathan<-). Since then I spent most of my career as an IT Consultant or IT Manager in the Boston area for a few different companies. Around the beginning of the Covid pandemic, I got burned out on this career and left the IT field. I've moved to Central Mass and now work in Logistics, as a heavy machine operator at a distribution center in the shipping department. I'm happy to have found DDial again as it brings back lots of fond memories!!
Aug 17, 2024
✚ Mitchell ✚ #1069
NONE
Not from back in the day. I wasn't even though of yet in the 80's. Glad to have been introduced to this fascinating community with many wholesome storied from the early onset of DDial.
Thank you DeeplyShrouded for inviting me to this community.
Thank you DeeplyShrouded for inviting me to this community.
Jun 11, 2024
0zZ-U #603
IRC * BBSs * Lotl * MagViz
Changing the world on a daily basis with GAS (Grep, Awk and Sed)
From retro BBSing / IRC into retro DDial
Owner of Mr. 0zZ-U's Bot Emporium
<<there's a bot for that>>
From retro BBSing / IRC into retro DDial
Owner of Mr. 0zZ-U's Bot Emporium
<<there's a bot for that>>
May 17, 2024
Pimp-J #758
Magviz
welcome back to my youtube channel my favorite buckaroonies
May 14, 2024
ve3myz[James] #816
ve3myz
ve3myz 73
Apr 30, 2024
`FiShy` #404
IRC baby
Killroy was here
Apr 25, 2024
Black Bart / Johno #1077
The STS 007, The X BBS, Alien Nation, Wagner’s Paradise Vancouver Island B.C.
If you know you Know.
Jan 8, 2024
Joey D. #1059
Joe’s Bar & Grill / Islechat
Wow, this is great! So awesome to see names of people and ddials from the past! I started on Islechat and after a short time became the owner and sysop of Joe’s Bar & Grill. Spent tons of time meeting great people that have remained lifelong friends. Spent a lot of time back then at Photon!
These days, living the dream, in Florida! Hope people that I knew and haven’t kept in touch with are doing well. Maybe I will run into them here!
Bill Basham - thanks for it all!
These days, living the dream, in Florida! Hope people that I knew and haven’t kept in touch with are doing well. Maybe I will run into them here!
Bill Basham - thanks for it all!
Jan 5, 2024
Skyman
The Call Box @ 312-741-3782 in Elgin
Where is Cat? You used a yellow terminal connected to a modem back in the day. I came to see you once.
Dec 20, 2023
Bat 5H1M Crazy #050
DDIAL: Enchat/OOTB/Wasteland/TGB/Joe's Bar & Grill; Galacticomm: Citylights
Originally from Brooklyn, NY, now residing in Queens, NY
Nice to see DDial making a come back.
Nice to see DDial making a come back.
Dec 19, 2023
bassboy #055
SynerChat
Nice to see some familiar handles. Found the site while trying to find old acquaintances on LinkedIn. Happy Holidays everyone!
Dec 8, 2023
alterra #331
Magviz/DDial
Thanks for making this place Winter and merry Christmas!
Dec 7, 2023
g33kgurl #321
The Jungle STS
So glad to have found this place! Brings me back to the good old days!
Dec 7, 2023
Stealth #150
STS-01
Wow, this is so cool, what a blast from the past. Thank you Winter for leading me here! I'm still alive and well, living in FL.
Oct 9, 2023
Prophet #072
Computer Connection #11, Las Vegas
I was on the Las Vegas D-Dial called Computer Connection, where my primary handle was Prophet; but I was also known as the man of 1000 handles, because I'd randomly change it to a new pun-related name almost daily, before going back to Prophet. I went to two national events, one in Dallas and one in Houston, back in the 80s.
Sep 19, 2023
Midnight Killer
All three Boston ddials
Hi Shawn,
I think I wrote D-Dial around 1980, so I would have been 30 then. I had a
friend at the time who was divorcing and was looking to meet new people.
They had a few articles on people who met in Compuserve chat rooms (before
AOL), but the per minute charges really added up that way. My friend
couldn't afford that.
So I figured I could write a chat system that ran on the Apple, and had the
idea to charge a flat monthly rate for access. I guess that idea caught on!
I kept working on D-Dial sporadically until about 1983. A big innovation was
the connecting of multiple systems. That was an interesting system because
everyone's "address" was just the path back to them, so it was different for
everyone on the network. That was an interesting idea that I've never seen
before or since.
Lately, I've been working on Diversi-Tune, which I initially wrote for the
2gs, but rewrote as a Java applet. Lately I've been switching to C#, and
doing some DVD creation stuff
How've you been?
Bill
I think I wrote D-Dial around 1980, so I would have been 30 then. I had a
friend at the time who was divorcing and was looking to meet new people.
They had a few articles on people who met in Compuserve chat rooms (before
AOL), but the per minute charges really added up that way. My friend
couldn't afford that.
So I figured I could write a chat system that ran on the Apple, and had the
idea to charge a flat monthly rate for access. I guess that idea caught on!
I kept working on D-Dial sporadically until about 1983. A big innovation was
the connecting of multiple systems. That was an interesting system because
everyone's "address" was just the path back to them, so it was different for
everyone on the network. That was an interesting idea that I've never seen
before or since.
Lately, I've been working on Diversi-Tune, which I initially wrote for the
2gs, but rewrote as a Java applet. Lately I've been switching to C#, and
doing some DVD creation stuff
How've you been?
Bill
Sep 8, 2023
lamune #732
Beyond Reality ddial #3 and Shore Thing STS-10
Was usually using a handle with some variant of "CoCo" in it back then. I'm out in the great Northwest now but always glad to chat with some fellow old-timers!
Aug 15, 2023
Phun Phreak
First amendment & whitehouse
I am andy owned in NJ first amendment and whitehouse..met many from Rockford IL in my day..nj brooklyn
Jul 22, 2023
Sci-Fi Guy #868
Central Control
Deeply Shrouded ran a great system! Bring it back, George!
May 26, 2023
Font
Ascii Connection, Point Zer0, Paradise, Jokertown, etc
AKA Chief Surgeon, p@, phonetic_plasma, and so on. Still alive in suburban Chicagoland. I don't do social media but can be reached as font008 at slipperyturd d0t com. Vr00p!
Mar 26, 2023
Admiral Kirk #170
EnChat, The Great Beyond, Out of The Blue, LI Chat
ATDT17183395053 (You know who you are)....so forth and so on....Can't believe I found this. Hi everyone! Tons of memories from those days. WE INVENTED THE EMOJI lol. Oh and that too. I think I was one of the last on LI Chat when it closed...long ago on a pc far far away....Wishing everyone the best. Kirkster.
Feb 26, 2023
Kaiser #1045
Point Zero, God's Country, Renegade Rendezvous, Vampire's Lair
I went by Knight's Cross on all of them. Those were the good old days. The door games, the chat, the gatherings. Oh I miss the 90's before the net.
Jan 18, 2023
Micro King #953
Conversi-Dial #53, Attic Static #41
I started out on Attic Static and then ran Conversi-Dial for several years. I frequented and used to link with several other dials. Glad to see this site is functioning again and got a makeover!
Dec 20, 2022
Schtroumpf #025
Illusive Deceptions
DDial is back! Spent lots of my formative years calling Illusive Deceptions, and now I can recreate the experience.
Dec 1, 2022
doffo #898
RMAC
Yooo! Nice site since the last time I remembered it.
Nov 11, 2022
-=>In@uBuS<=-(* #092
OOTB, Islchat, TGB, Falkenz, jeez, many
what’s up folks?
Nov 8, 2022
Merischino
FlashTalk among others
Hi I’m alive and kicking and still using technology in ways it wasn’t meant for and breaking and fixing crap myself, not as a profession. Always looking for ways to recruit people not pursuing this behavior to start doing it.
I always just, in my own mind, was just coming along for the ride with all the greats. I realize I also have skills and use them everyday but seemingly everyone I knew then, if they’re still around, are proving me right. They are indeed the greats.
I always just, in my own mind, was just coming along for the ride with all the greats. I realize I also have skills and use them everyday but seemingly everyone I knew then, if they’re still around, are proving me right. They are indeed the greats.
Nov 6, 2022
SirParadox #079
NNJ
What a blast from the past! Really cool guys!
Nov 4, 2022
Charon #254
Point Zero, Kink Heaven
PZ and KH were both local to me, so easy to just dial up and stay on all day.
I was also the SysOp of the The River Styx II BBS.
I was also the SysOp of the The River Styx II BBS.
Nov 4, 2022
☣XxSwitchBladexX☣™️ #251
PC-Connection#71, InterCHAT#17, Central Control#49, and The Jungle#62
Been DDialin since 1987 at age 16 and was introduced by someone i got to meet in the same neighborhood i lived in from West New York, NJ.
Met alot of great people along the way, and partied like it was 1999.
Met alot of great people along the way, and partied like it was 1999.
Nov 4, 2022
Joe Boo #232
Sysop SynerChat STS-14 / Gtalk-5 / bbs.chat.net
Cool to see dialchat lives on ! I’m still in NorCal, still doing tech stuff. Great to see a few familiar handles from 30 years ago! I’ll try to pop in on the next virtual meet up to say hi to more
Nov 4, 2022
ANarchY X (RBOK #100
STS-01, NOTA (STS-??)
Yep! it's me, the same lovable asshole you knew and loved/hated.
Nov 4, 2022
Tybalt #267
2112, 5150
Sysop on 2112. IRL name is Jeff Keegan. 2112 and 5150 were both in MA.
Nov 3, 2022
Hc. #446
STS-13
°☆.。.:*・
Nov 3, 2022
Liquid Crystal #034
Magnetic Visions, Virtual Reality, Illusive Deceptions and probably others that I forgot
Hey hey, just checking to see if this microphone still works!! >>tap, tap<<
Nov 3, 2022
Sf
Three-Ring Circuit #9
I swear that there are still people in chat rooms today that can only be explained by blaming line noise.
Nov 3, 2022
GreatScott! #121
Bunker, Kaleidoscope, General Modem, Point Zero
always love a good upgrade - way to go and keep it all alive!
Nov 3, 2022
seth #133
The Jungle
133]seTh: I feel silly using a capital "T' as an adult, but that was my handle on The Jungle!
I laugh when people say nostalgic things about AIM, because back in my day...
But anyway, I'm really glad this site's had a refresh and that history is not only being preserved but is still alive. (It just feels wrong on a smartphone!)
I laugh when people say nostalgic things about AIM, because back in my day...
But anyway, I'm really glad this site's had a refresh and that history is not only being preserved but is still alive. (It just feels wrong on a smartphone!)
Nov 3, 2022
ndf #075
Savage Frontier, Active Imagination, Gak, ENTChat
This looks great! Glad to see this being updated! Thank you!
Nov 1, 2022
duckie #003
Mere Illusion
It has been three decades since I first used ddial and with this resurgence, the nostalgia is overwhelming. Great job to all who made it possible.
Oct 27, 2022
Lord Kaotic #031
Magnetic Visions, Crystal Mountain, Virtual Reality, Illusive Deceptions, Sam OBEN STS, tht one in Victoria BC...
Good times back in the day. Great to see this rendition up and running.
Oct 27, 2022
Den #111
Flash-Talk #35, The Jungle (D-Dial #62, STS #12)
Web site looks great! Awesome job!
Oct 26, 2022
Marc #962
Sysop - Jungle DDial 62 and STS-12
Ddial and STS were a huge part of my success in life. I owe a tremendous amount to the community and generations of members on my systems. Its great to see and hear from ex dialers and see their kids and even relationships that began on the Jungle. I look forward to chatting with you again!
Oct 26, 2022
Deeply Shrouded #249
Central Control D-Dial #49
We are the Borg. Resistance Is Futile.
I miss my #001.
I miss my #001.
Oct 26, 2022
Winter #001
Magnetic VIsions, Illusive Deceptions, Crystal isle, Sam Oben
I was ddialing from around 1987 to 1994 in Vancouver and Victoria BC. Last place was Illusive Deceptions which was actually a GTalk system. There i built a /p BlackJack game in Pascal which earned me a Free user# as long as i was on enough for users to play it :)
